Remarkable Home: A pool and cabana on 2.88 acres in New Braunfels
Now on the market for $1,749,000, this four-bedroom, five-bath home spans 3,993 square feet and has a pool and cabana, with an annual HOA fee beyond the asking price.
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Listed Oct. 1, 2026
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At 1543 Via Principale in New Braunfels, a 3,993-square-foot home on 2.88 acres is listed for $1,749,000.
Posted Oct. 1, the listing describes a four-bedroom, five-bathroom house built in 2017 by TA French. The annual HOA fee is $1,775, and the latest recorded paid property tax is $13,399 for 2025. Those recurring charges belong alongside the asking price when considering what this property costs.
The listing gives a price of $438 per square foot. As of the Oct. 15 compilation, the property remains listed at $1,749,000. Keller Williams Heritage is the listing brokerage, and Shelby Renfeld is the named agent. The figures and features below come from the current listing record, which readers can inspect at the property's listing page.
The approach and setting
The acreage is the first measure of the property's scale: the listed lot covers 2.88 acres, while the house accounts for 3,993 square feet of living area. The listing also describes panoramic views. The land and the views are both listed features, though the record does not say how the views appear from individual rooms.
The 2017 construction date places the TA French home in a more recent chapter than its traditional-looking street address might suggest. Its four bedrooms and five bathrooms comprise four full baths and one half bath. That count gives readers a clearer picture of the floor plan's capacity than the five-bathroom figure alone, though the listing does not map a bathroom to each bedroom.
Inside, the listing identifies beamed ceilings and a double-sided fireplace. It also names an office, an upstairs game room and a media room. Together, those listed spaces put work and recreation alongside the main living areas; they are concrete features to weigh against the home's nearly 4,000 square feet, without assuming how the rooms connect or which one has the view.
The double-sided fireplace is a distinctive interior detail because the listing calls out its two-sided form rather than simply listing a fireplace among the home's amenities. The office, game room and media room serve different stated purposes. The listing's room names establish that range of uses, while leaving the actual layout to the property materials a reader can inspect.
The kitchen is part of a house whose listed living area is 3,993 square feet, with separate dining space represented in the listing materials. The record identifies an outdoor kitchen as well, making food preparation one of the threads between the indoor living space and the poolside area. The outdoor kitchen is a stated feature, not a reason to assume anything about the indoor kitchen's appliances or finishes.
For this room, the disciplined reading of the listing is a narrow one: a kitchen appears in the property materials, and the listed home has four bedrooms, five bathrooms and several other named living spaces. The listing's $438-per-square-foot figure applies to the house as a whole. It does not assign a separate value to the kitchen or any other room.
The property materials identify a primary suite, and the listing names a copper soaking tub among the home's features. Copper is one of the few specified materials in the available description, so the tub is a more useful detail than a general claim about luxury finishes. The listing records five bathrooms in total, four full and one half, but the bathroom count alone says little about the size of any one suite.
A household considering the room count can place the primary suite within the larger four-bedroom plan. The office, upstairs game room and media room are named separately from those four bedrooms. The listing counts four bedrooms; the three other rooms have their own stated uses.
The outdoor features are unusually specific in the listing: a pool, cabana, outdoor kitchen and outdoor fireplaces accompany the 2.88-acre lot. The pool and cabana give the outdoor area its clearest focal points. The fireplaces and kitchen extend the list of stated uses beyond swimming, while the panoramic views describe the setting around that space.
The asking price has a brief earlier listing history worth keeping separate from a sale: a 2024 listing was removed at $1,765,000. The current $1,749,000 figure is an asking price, not a recorded transaction price. The listing also reports a 2026 assessed value of $1,441,400 and identifies Bill Brown Elementary, Smithson Valley Middle School and Smithson Valley High School as the schools for the address.
The next definitive price point will be a recorded sale, if the home sells; a change to the active asking price would be an earlier update. Until either appears, the current listing page is the direct route for checking the property's stated price, features and status.